Edgar Allan Poe Digital collection created at University of Texas

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By Paul Biba

This is from the news release. Looks like fun!

The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, has introduced the Edgar Allan Poe digital collection, an archive of 4,000 images of more than 200 materials.

The collection includes materials ranging from Poe’s correspondence and manuscripts to letters about Poe and his writings by Arthur Conan Doyle, Stephane Mallarme and Charles Baudelaire.

The materials can be viewed online at http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/digitalpoe .

The digital collection accompanies the 2009 bicentennial exhibition “From Out That Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Edgar Allan Poe,” a joint venture between the Ransom Center and the Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia. The exhibition opens at the Ransom Center on Sept. 8 and runs through Jan. 3, 2010.

The digital collection, which will remain on the Web site after the exhibition concludes, includes images of all Poe manuscripts and letters at the Ransom Center with a selection of related archival materials, two books by Poe annotated by the author, sheet music based on his poems and portraits from the Center’s collections. Poe’s manuscripts and letters are linked to transcriptions on the Web site of the Poe Society of Baltimore.

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